{"id":2385926,"date":"2026-04-23T14:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2385926"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:50:50","slug":"all-the-celebrities-who-hung-out-in-la-casita-during-bad-bunnys-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/all-the-celebrities-who-hung-out-in-la-casita-during-bad-bunnys-halftime-show\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Celebrities Who Hung Out in La Casita During Bad Bunny\u2019s Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube\"> <span style=\"display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;\" class=\"rm-shortcode\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"173b8ce8cb88a2650b83489720678028\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael (2026) Final Trailer - Jaafar Jackson\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k-YAcjaLuSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span> <small class=\"image-media media-caption\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Caption...\">&#8211; YouTube<\/small> <small class=\"image-media media-photo-credit\" placeholder=\"Add Photo Credit...\"> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k-YAcjaLuSI\" target=\"_blank\">youtu.be<\/a> <\/small> <\/p>\n<p>But back to the giraffe. By this point in director Antoine Fuqua\u2019s retelling of Jackson\u2019s story from creative cradle to, well, way before his reputational grave \u2014 the film conspicuously stops at 1987 \u2014 we\u2019ve seen the young Michael (Juliano Valdi) practicing with his siblings in Gary, Indiana, and clearly distinguishing himself as a child prodigy with a soulful falsetto. We\u2019ve watched Joe Jackson (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/colman-domingo\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Colman Domingo<\/a>) rule over the household and Michael\u2019s delicate psyche with an iron fist, a hair-trigger temper, and a leather belt always in reach. We observe Michael recording with Motown, and basking in the much-needed positive affirmation from surrogate father figure Berry Gordy (Larenz Tate). There will be montages, legions of them, but we\u2019ll have seen the first of many as the Jackson 5\u2019s mega-bop \u201cABC\u201d overtakes the Beatles\u2019 \u201cLet It Be\u201d for the Number One spot on the charts in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>We have sped through the Seventies, in which Joe has established his Jackson Inc. empire in Encino, California, and Michael has already begun hanging out with a menagerie that ranges from llamas to rats. There is a scene of young M.J. explaining to his family that the large rodents aren\u2019t just best known for dragging pizza slices down subway stairs, but are beautiful, loyal creatures. That the filmmakers didn\u2019t score it to \u201cBen,\u201d the title track to Jackson\u2019s 1972 album that doubled as a theme to the rat-revenge horror movie of the same name, is a missed opportunity. The sequence is set in 1971, a year before both the song and the movie came out, but look, it\u2019s not like accuracy is this film\u2019s main objective. The biopic has got other, far more pressing concerns on its mind, like the multitude of dollar signs floating before its eyes.<\/p>\n<h3\/>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-lists\/best-movies-of-the-21st-century-1235200512\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael-Jackson-Five-embed.jpg?w=1024\"\/><strong>Juliano Valdi, center, and the rest of the Jackson 5 in Michael <\/strong>Lionsgate<\/p>\n<p>We have met the adult Michael Jackson (Jaafar Jackson, a.k.a. Michael\u2019s IRL nephew), ready for emancipation and a chance to get the new music in his head on wax. We have met Bill Bray (KeiLyn Durrel Jones), Michael\u2019s security guy, so omnipresent in the film that he could be considered a co-lead. We\u2019ve met Quincy (Kendrick Sampson), and Katherine Jackson (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nia-long\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nia Long<\/a>), the lone island of sympathy and sanity in the Jackson mansion, and a computer-generated version of Bubbles the chimp that is the stuff of nightmares. More important, we the viewers have been introduced to the most saintly corporate lawyer to ever walk God\u2019s green earth, John Branca (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/miles-teller\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miles Teller<\/a>). The fact that Branca is a producer on the film has nothing to do with his portrayal as the human version of the pet llama that loves Michael unthinkingly and unconditionally. Also, so far as we know, the llama never visited Jackson in the hospital after that Pepsi commercial went horribly awry \u2014 we\u2019ll get to see that, too \u2014 and gave him a stuffed Mickey Mouse doll, which Branca does in the movie, so bonus points for Branca.<\/p>\n<p>Having impressed his client in a meeting by saying he believes M.J. is destined to become the greatest, biggest, most unstoppable pop star in the world, Branca is then tasked with liberating Michael. Joe is lording over his fiefdom from his den, designed in perfect Don Corleone-chic decor, when his fax machine buzzes to life. The lawyer has fired the patriarch from his self-appointed job of being Michael\u2019s personal manager. Colman Domingo\u2019s performance, easily the most compelling and psychologically complex element within Michael, has already been pitched somewhere between <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/king-richard-review-will-smith-venus-serena-1258181\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cKing\u201d Richard Williams<\/a> and Richard III. Never mind that his mustache is modest \u2014 he\u2019s essentially been twirling it for over an hour. When he sees his world crumble courtesy of a single piece of fax paper, a parade of emotions plays across his face. Betrayal! Righteousness! Sorrow! Angst!<\/p>\n<p>And then, right as Joe\u2019s already prevalent rage is on the precipice of going nuclear, a CGI giraffe nonchalantly strolls past a third-story window in the background.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Coleman-Michael.jpg?w=1024\"\/><strong>Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson<\/strong>Courtesy of Lionsgate<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this mix of the head-spinning and the jaw-dropping, the ridiculousness that aches to be sublime and ends up being the purest distillation of camp, that characterizes Michael as a whole. Yes, we know, haters are gonna hate, etc. And fans, the ones who are willing to view any suggestion that Neverland wasn\u2019t Eden with a Ferris wheel as an attack, will treat this blockbuster-level biopic as a victory lap. And the people who are invested in Jackson\u2019s legacy are going to make a lotta money off its version of Michael as a victim of horrific abuse and emotional blackmail by his monstrous pops, who, despite it all managed to become a beloved global superstar.<\/p>\n<p>We were never going to get a real biopic of Michael Jackson, of course. There are too many contradictions, too long a list of things that require confronting, too much gray area to reconcile. Better to just blindly celebrate a universally recognizable back catalog and let Mike Myers do a \u201cCoffee Talk\u201d-level imitation of Walter Yetnikoff, right?<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t mean, however, we were destined to get a movie where Michael plays a game of Twister with Bubbles, regularly drops platitudes like \u201cMusic can bring everyone together\u201d (can we get a fact-check on this?), and moonwalks away from anything remotely resembling a deeper look. You may have heard that the film was delayed because of issues around allegations and lawsuits and settlements, and that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2026\/04\/27\/antoine-fuqua-profile\" target=\"_blank\">Fuqua had filmed<\/a> an FBI raid on Neverland that would have clearly leaned heavy on the side of Jackson over the accusers. That had to be scrapped for legal reasons, though it\u2019s hinted that such sequences may show up in potential sequels. Given what happens after 1987, maybe the Jackson Cinematic Universe is best left as a one-off endeavor.<\/p>\n<h3\/>\n<p>This isn\u2019t really a biopic. This is the Passion of St. Michael, rendered with great fidelity to and emphasis on both Jackson\u2019s undeniable suffering and equally undeniable talent. Jaafar Jackson does bear an uncanny resemblance to his late uncle, and clearly knows how to replicate his signature moves, his physical fluidity, his beaming smile reserved for fans, animals, and hospital residents. But watching Michael\u2019s greatest hits \u2014 the Motown 25 showstopper, the \u201cThriller\u201d video choreography, the gang-member summit turned dance rehearsal that begets \u201cBeat It\u201d \u2014 reproduced with such stunning accuracy is, frankly, a little depressing. You\u2019re reminded of the first time you heard Jackson\u2019s music, and how overwhelming the hooks, the production, the chops, the sheer energy that characterized his live performances and videos earned him the title the King of Pop.<\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019re also reminded that such things are still tainted, even if the movie twists itself into knots to circumvent such thinking, and the level of innocence required to listen to those hits is long gone. \u201cHis story continues\u201d declares an end title card, as the echoes of a London stop on the Bad tour fade on the soundtrack. To paraphrase <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo\" target=\"_blank\">a Jackson song<\/a>: Please stop. We\u2019ve had enough.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; YouTube youtu.be But back to the giraffe. By this point in director Antoine Fuqua\u2019s retelling of Jackson\u2019s story from creative cradle to, well, way before his reputational grave \u2014 the film conspicuously stops at 1987 \u2014 we\u2019ve seen the young Michael (Juliano Valdi) practicing with his siblings in Gary, Indiana, and clearly distinguishing himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2385927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[353609,465067,305552,21751,369577,50514,356162,465066,310573,46381,21848,346955,346292],"class_list":["post-2385926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-alix-earle","tag-benito-bowl","tag-cardi-b","tag-celebrities","tag-david-grutman","tag-jessica-alba","tag-karol-g","tag-lv","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-puerto-rico","tag-sports","tag-super-bowl","tag-young-miko"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/All-the-Celebrities-Who-Hung-Out-in-La-Casita-During.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385928,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385926\/revisions\/2385928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}